Mathematics at the Meridian: The History of Mathematics at Greenwich (Chapman & Hall/CRC Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing Series)

ISBN 10: 0367362724 / ISBN 13: 9780367362720

Edité par Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2019

In. N° de réf. du vendeur ria9780367362720_new

Synopsis :

Greenwich has been a centre for scientific computing since the foundation of the Royal Observatory in 1675. This book presents an account of the mathematicians who worked at Greenwich and their achievements.

À propos de l?auteur:

Raymond Flood

Raymond Flood has spent most of his academic life promoting mathematics and computing to adult audiences, mainly through his position as University Lecturer at Oxford University, in the Continuing Education Department and at Kellogg College. In parallel he has worked extensively on the history of mathematics, producing many books and other educational material.

He is Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, having been Vice-President of the College and President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics before retiring in 2010. He was Gresham College Professor of Geometry from 2012 to 2016. He is a graduate of Queen's University, Belfast; Linacre College, Oxford; and University College, Dublin where he obtained his PhD.

Tony Mann

Tony Mann is Director of Greenwich Maths Centre at the University of Greenwich, where he has taught for many years. He is a past President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and has published on mathematics in Victorian Scotland and on mathematics in fiction. He is a former Visiting Professor of Computing Mathematics at Gresham College.

As a former undergraduate at Pembroke College Cambridge, with which Burnside was closely connected, Tony is pleased to have edited, with Peter M. Neumann and Julia Tompson, The Collected Papers of William Burnside (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Mary Croarken

Mary Croarken started her academic career at the University of Warwick with a degree in Computer Science and then a PhD in History of Computing. Mary has subsequently held a series of academic fellowships including the Sackler Fellowship at the Centre for Maritime Research at the National Maritime Museum (NMM) 2000 - 2002. While at NMM, she helped to organise a joint NMM and British Society for the History of Mathematics conference called Greenwich: Some Mathematical Connections which provided the inspiration for this book. Mary continues her academic interests in human computers but now works full time supporting health research in the NHS.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Mathematics at the Meridian: The History of ...
Éditeur : Chapman and Hall/CRC
Date d'édition : 2019
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : New